The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-13


the room, moaning and crying in agony,
Whlle doctors and nurses were binding up
their wounds Bloody clothing, torn and
covered with mud, lay around on the floors
In heaps, together with the car cushions,
mattresses and blankets, on which they had
been brought from the scene of the wreck.
Many patients were under the influence of
ether or chloroform, while their faces,
ghaStly white and teeth tightly clenched,
showed the sufferings which they were un-
dergolng while partially oblivious to the
ract. Blood was everywhere-on the floors,
walls, clothing and hands of the
wounded, as well as those who
were caring for them. As the day
wore away and the afternoon shadows
somewhat. The wounded had been dressed
and bandaged, and most of them rested
quietly enough, overcome by mental and
physical suffering, resting on comfortable
beds, watched by tender-hearted men and
women, a majority of whom had never seen
the patients until yesterday. They slept
obvious to the slaughter which had taken
place.
LIKE BATTLEFIELD HOSPITAL.
Coal oil lamps were placed around the
hall, their light carefully shaded, and the
scene was strongly suggestive of the interior
of a hospital on a field of battle. In one
corner of the lower hall lay John C.. Steer,
resident of Jersey City, a large and pow
erful man. Both of his legs were broken
and he had received such internal injuries
as rendered his recovery doubtful. Adam
Shoeberger, of Peoria lay near him, semi
conscious and slowly breathing his life
away. One of his legs was broken
and he was injured internally
On the upper floor handsome woman
about 20 years of age, stylishly dressed, lay
extended on couch. She was Miss Hattie
Bremen, of Pennington, ILL.,, and was on
her way to Niagara Falls with several rela-
tives. In the party was a young man
named Walters also of Pennington, and to
whom she was engaged to be married. He
had been badly injured and lay near her on
bed attended by couple of surgeons.
While Miss Bremen was physically unhurt,
yet the fright and knowledge of her lovers
injuries has rendered her insane.
THE IMPRovIsED MoRGUE
In the depot at Chatsworth and in an
unoccupied store used as q morgue the
scene was suggestive of a slaughter house.
Stretched out ON the floor in different direc-
tions were the corpses of men, women and
children, dressed in the clothing in which
they had met their death In an empty
storeroom, twenty feet wide and forty feet
long were counted twenty-seven corpses at
one time. Their clothing was torn and dis
ilSN6lltU anu
in majority of cases were crossed over
their breasts. The heads of the dead were
generally mangled in most frighUful man
ner and were always covered by some article
of clothing.
The face of a young woman who was ly-
ing on the floor of the depot had been so
beaten in that recognition was entirely out
of the question, and her brains and the flesh
of her face were pulpy mass in which
Il IaI Ia,. lone ,,o1 I,a,, h..
identified
A man with a heavy dark moustache,
and who was apparently about 35 years
of age, had been struck in the face by some
substance which had torn away his jaw and
the side of his face, leaving the throat and
lower part of his face exposed.
A 5-year-old boy with chubby face and
curly hair looked contented and smiling
His legs were not broken, but his flesh was
so nangled that it bore the appearance of
raw beef. His chest was crushed in and his
little body was covered with bruises. Nearly
every corpse was mangled or diSfigured.
The faces of some of the dead were as black
as though they had died from suffocation,
while others were deadly white.
A dispatch from Springfield, Ill, says:
''The Board of Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioners will go to ChatSworth to-day
and conduct an investigation of the wreck
of yesterday morning"
AWAKENING CHATswoRTH.
Another dispatch from Forest says: ''The
news of the disaster arrived at Chatsworth
about forty minutes after its occurrence.
The peaceable residents of the little town
were suddenly awakened by an alarm
which was ringing simultaneously from all
the alarm boxes i'll town. After few min
utes everybody was on his or her feet and
people were running through the streets
from all directions, all inquiring where the
fire was. When the actual facts were
learned another alarm followed which was
soon vigorously re-echoed by the bells
of all the churches in town. The
people made a rush for the roads to
Piper City DR.. Vaughn, of Chatsworth,
was the first to appear at the scene He
was seen by reporter and told briefly what
he saw When | arrived found the great
est confusion, he said. He'll itself could not
present more horrible picture-men and
women fighting with death and ready to
clutch at a straw to be saved. One man
held his dead wife and a dead lit
tie child in his arms while his
own feet were broken and caught in the
wreck | relieved the unfortunate man of
his burden and helped to drag him out and
bring him to a sleeper. One of the greatest
misfortunes was the fact that the wreck
took place almost in desert 1t was impos-
SlDiP 10 hCcOIu bIlt SuliltiCIlJ dSSlSJ-
ance. There were no ambulances and
nothing to carry them on. They were
dragged and pushed and this accounts for
the great number of people who succumbed
to their wounds"
THE FIRE MARSHAL's STORY.
Fire Marshal Henry H. Game, of Chats
worth, says he was one of the first
to arrive at the scene. 81 had no
time to observe anything that trans
pired around me" he said. "Myself and
inv entire force were working like beavers
ali the time, and in the course Of half an
hour we had thirtythrce people, killed and
wounded, dragged out of the debris Four
cars were standing on the track and the
only thing | knew about them is that /
carried wounded men and women there"
The following names have been added to
the list of dead since last night Mrs Dr.
Dnckett. of Forest; Mrs. A. b. Croswell, of
Kankakee; j. d. Whiteridge, of Franklin,
Mob s. d. Brcss, of Peoria; Mrs. John
VOORHEES,, of Washington, H.. Miss Mamie
Powers, of Peoria; Mrs. Rev. Haymill, of
Abingdon: James Blair, of Eureka; Arthur
Mccarthy, of Eureka.
PRESIDENT LEoNARD's SUSPICIOUS.
President +. f. Leonard, of the Toledo,
Peoria and Western Company. said TO a re-
porter Of the Times that he had made n
cnreful, but necessarily brief, investigation
of the accident and could in no way ac-
count for it., unless on the presumption that
the bridge was set on fire deliberately by
fiends for the purpose of wrecking